Lamar County AlArchives News.....Lamar News February 3, 1887 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Veneta McKinney http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00016.html#0003775 December 11, 2006, 10:39 pm AL Dept Of Archives And History February 3, 1887 Microfilm Ref Call #373 Microfilm Order #M1992.4466 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE LAMAR NEWS E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor VERNON, ALABAMA, FEBRUARY 3, 1887 VOL. IV. NO. 14 CITATIONS OF A HINDU PRINCE AND SKEPTIC – Poem ------ - Short Story – (Almost all of the first column is missing – torn) – [Chicago Inter Ocean] A ROUGH RAT STORY – article about the death of a Tennessee man by rats There are some foolish, shallow, bigoted people in the Republic who think that $5,000 a year is too much to pay a Untied States Senator. And yet a United States Senator has just invented a new cocktail. Do the American people expect to get statesmanship for nothing? – [Buredelle] Arrangements are making to run a “Blitzzug” or lightning train from Paris to St. Petersburg. It will travel at fifty-six miles an hour and have all the accommodations of our palace cars. THE SNAKE CHARMERS – Article about snake charmers – [The Eye] THAT EASY CHAIR – Anecdote GLEANINGS The Zuni Indians were the inventors of the cigarette. A Maryland hen lays eggs that weigh four ounces each. A case of “barber’s itch” in Philadelphia was settled for $400. Commissioner Price has issued an order prohibiting dancing among Indians. The estates of the Queen of Servia are to be sold to pay her debts, which aggregate 1,000,000 rubles. Harcourt, Home Secretary for Great Britain, has the reputation of being the most disagreeable man alive. Mrs. Henerietta Smith, of Cincinnati, has a boy whose father, she says, was once Vice President of the United States. She gives no names, however. St. Luis girls are anticipating a great deal of pleasure when “Tecump” Sherman shall settle down in that town and devote his entire time to kissing. Marquis Tseng, “the Chinese Talleyrand” is a genial little gentleman, of singular simplicity and gentleness of manner, which conceals sterner stuff. Some of the bales of new cotton coming forward are found to contain cord wood, scrap iron, and bowlders (sic). The planters are learning the meaning of the word “thrift.” Professor Paul Passey, of Paris, says the United State is the dullest country he ever visited. He probably didn’t go out and interview the cowboys. The Boston Young Men’s Christian Union, which for ten summers past has given riders to invalids, during the past summer has furnished 1,402 persons, inmates of hospitals and homes with carriage drives in the suburbs. In addition 4,160 steamboat and horse-car tickets were distributed to the same class of persons. A smart young man named Howard has been victimizing Ballston Spa people by selling a revolving grate for cooking stoves, from house to house, and then borrowing it from the purchaser to show to someone else, on the plea that he was all sold out. The young swindler managed in this way to sell the grate no less than seven times. A $20 gold piece and a silver dollar were found on William Petty’s person after his arrest, in Portland, Oregon. He is a gambler. The coins were hollowed out, and in each hollow was a mirror, and while they were lying on the table at an angle of forty-five degrees behind a stack of coin in front of the dealer, he could see every card held by his opponents. The Prince of Bulgaria, the most insignificant of European sovereigns, a young man of twenty-six, whoever commanded a regiment in the field, possess thirty- seven decorations, a great many of them of a high order, and originally intended only for those who had distinguished themselves in action. Walter S. Graham, of Netherwood, N. J., was awakened one night by his dog climbing on his chest and licking his face. Feeling that something must be wrong, he arose, and looking out of the window, observed two men on the premises. He fired and ran downstairs. Soon the house was discovered to be on fire. The dog had saved his life and that of his family. A young man living in Dayton, Ohio, has commenced proceedings to ascertain by judicial decision whether the father of a young lady to whom he was attached had a right to enforce with a horsewhip his order to keep away from the front gate. It is rather late in the season, but it is hoped that the point will be definitely settled in time for next summer’s gate swingers. Curtis McGregor, of Caddo Peak, Texas, had his arm mutilated by a gun. He was able to sit up and walk about the room, but complained from the first of pain in the amputated hand and declared there were bugs in it. This continued until the eighth day after amputation when friends exhumed and examined the amputated arm, which had been buried in a box with a cloth wrapped around it. A large bug was found in the hand as stated by McGregor. A singular verification of the old proverb about a guilty conscience needing no accuser was brought to light in New York the other day in the case of Albert Strittmastter, a young clerk, who forged the signature of his employer in checks to supply himself with money. A detective who was looking for man whom Strittmatter greatly resembled, arrested Strittmatter. The clerk’s guilty conscience suggested only one reason for the arrest, and he told the surprised detective all about the forgeries. Hamilton, Ontario boasts the most unlucky man. A teamster accidentally dropped s stone on his head which left a lump that would astonish a phrenologist; a dog bit him on the leg so severely as to lay him up for five week; while bathing in the lake some one stole his clothes, and while journeying to Marersville, on route to Buffalo the other day, his cap blew off, and in trying to catch it he fell off the train, dislocating his ankle joint, and sustaining serous injuries about he head, breast, and hip. John W. Duchman, of Indianapolis, sued Mrs. Lily Hell, alleging that she had broken her promise to give him her hand in marriage if he would give her a $500 pianoforte. He added that she had also put cheese in his coffee, struck him with a broom, and thrown a lighted match in his face. She denies every allegation, and said that he gave her the pianoforte unconditionally, and other presents as well. She admitted that she one playfully threw a piece of cheese at him when they were at the table, and that she pursued him with a broom when he tried to kiss her. John lost both suits. Two men in Miles City, Montana, pretended to have learned by telegraph that the government had thrown open the eastern part of the Fort Keogh Reservation to settlers. They whispered this cautiously to special friends, enjoining strict secrecy. Before night there was a stampede, the supposed public land claims were staked off, shanties were put up, tenets were pitched, and the jokers say that a town was laid out and a real estate “boom” was under full headway before nine o’clock that evening. But by then the joke was out and the place was deserted. A vessel of special and ingenious design is being prepared for Stanley’s use in Africa. It will be propelled by a stern paddle wheel, and the hull will be arranged in such a manner that it can’t readily subdivided into a number of sections, each being floatable and provided with fittings for receiving four large wheels. These wheels can be attached to each section while afloat so that it can be drown out of the water for transportation overland without difficulty. Each of the subdivisions of the hull forms, when fitted with the wheels, a complete wagon of itself, capable of carrying the machinery of the steamer, merchandise, store, etc. It is to be completed by the end of this year, and will be tested afloat under steam on the Thames. Mme. Modjeska’s son Ralph intends to make this country his future home. He is about nineteen years old, and took the highest honors last spring in his graduation from the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. He intends to practice civil engineering, giving special attention to roads and bridges. He speaks English well, has Mme. Modjeska’s “features’, is a fine pianist, and plays billiards well. He will inherit property in Poland, and some of his mother’s earnings, but prefers to have a profession. He has been spending his vacation in California, and returns to Paris in about a week to complete his studies and graduate at the highest school in France in all departments of engineering. St Cyr, where the high standing he obtained at the Polytechnique gives him the privilege of becoming a member. Two years at St. Cyr will finish his education. AN ELEPHANT STORY – Anecdote of an elephant THE EMBLEMATIC HORSE SHOE – article about the horse shoe and its superstition – (VERY light – can’t read) PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY FEBRUARY 3, 1887 RATES OF ADVERTISING One inch, one insertion $1.00 One inch, each subsequent insertion .50 One inch, twelve months 10.00 One inch, six months 7.00 One inch, three months 5.00 Two inches twelve months 15.00 Two inches, six months 10.00 Quarter column 12 months 35.00 Half Column 12 months 60.00 One column 12 months 100.00 Professional card $10. Special advertisements in local columns will be charged double rates. All advertisements collectable after first insertion. Local notices 10 cents per line. The following advice of an old orator to a young preacher embraces the fundamental principles of success in all undertakings, “Begin low; proceed slow; rise higher; take fire; wax warm; sit down in a storm.” Little boats always totter about on the surface of the water, going all ways, as it happens, and overturning in a breath while the great ship sinks deeply and more deeply to and goes steadily on. The cause of its steadiness is its depth. So abiding in the great truths of God gives steadfastness of motion to the soul. Under all the pressure of error and unbelief and false doctrines, it is unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord. It is not “tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive.” LET ‘ER BOOM! Alabama is still booing in a way that was never heard of before. The chronic croakers have been crowded to the wall and their speaking voice can only be heard occasionally ‘twist the puffs of progress. They have been the greatest curen that have ever blighted a fair land. To get the millions of locked up capital of this country and Europe, to come here is easily done when you can get the owners to come and look on the richest and grandest spot on the globe. There is not a single instance on record where a man has come to Alabama and has not gone away praising her greatness. The wealth of the world is flowing toward us. and when it gets to Birmingham it will have room and spread out more than one hundred miles. Now is the time for the young to discard the advice of croakers and for the old to take a new lease on their lives for prosperity is within their reach. ITEMS OF THOUGHT As subjects of society, and social reform, we should not be as tenacious about the following in our old beaten paths, or those of our predecessors, as but to avoid the missteps of a past life, and the mistaken of others. It is of much more importance for us, to repair the side hill places of the journey of life and fill up the moral, bog-holes, than to attempt to pass over, or though them. It becomes quite necessary for once safety, that we find out the depth of the stream, and know what kind of a bed it has before we venture to for it. So it behooves every pilgrim of time, in all the cirenitous walks of human life, to know the effort of the many habits of life, before we adopt, and become wedded to them. Or they become like a moral fungus ------(TOO LIGHT TO READ)---- Jas. Billings DR. TALLMAGE’S CONVERTS – [New York Star] Rev. T. De Witt Talmage extended the right hand of fellowship yesterday morning to 341 persons who had been converted during the revival meetings held at the church. The line of persons filled the semi-circular aisle that extends around the church and nearly filled all of the straight aisles leading to the exits. It took Dr. Tamage and the senior elder of the church fifteen minutes to take all the new members by the hand. Many of the converts were young men. As the passed along the line, Dr. Talmage spoke encouraging words and exhorted them to be steadfast soldiers. After the regular service the communion was administered and several of the new members were baptized by sprinkling. Next Sunday there will be baptism by immersion. In his sermon Dr. Talmage said the day was an important one in the history of the Tabernacle. “On other days,” said he, “we cast out our net; today we draw it in. On other days we fight our battles; today we enjoy the victory.” “Who are these that fly as a cloud and as the doves to their windows” were the words of the text, taken from the eight verse of the sixtieth chapter of Isiah (sic). It is natural, said the preacher, that when a great dock of people joint he church we should ask “Who are these?” and in the words of the text I ask the question this morning. They are redeemed. They are heirs of immortality. They are redeemed. They are of the blood-washed throng. Bring garlands and music and spirit of congratulation to celebrate this harvest home. There has been a notion among church people that they must sow their wild oats. I have noticed that ninety-nine out of every hundred who sow wild oats live to reap no other crop. So we rejoice at the coming of the young. All men adopt as their “Win Gold.” But men are distinguished from each other by the practical ending of that motto. The vain man adds “and war it,” the generous man, “and share it”, the miser “and spare it”; the prodigal “and spend it”; the fool “and end it”; the gambler “and lose it”; but the wise man “and use it.’ Columbus is now on a boom. Real estate has advanced in the last few weeks about 50 percent. It is said the gap in the Georgia Pacific between that city and Birmingham will be completed in about ninety days. A surveying party is on the road west and has already passed Starkville. Emma Lazarus, the greatest and noblest Hebrew woman of the age is sick in London. New Orleans claims a population of 250,000. It is said that Jay Gould never was in a hurry. Ad for Collins Ague Cure MAKING TOBACCO PIPES (This article is a repeat from an earlier edition– not transcribing it) CLIMATE OF THE ISTHMAS – (Repeat article – not transcribing) ATTORNEYS SMITH & YOUNG, Attorneys-At-Law Vernon, Alabama– W. R. SMITH, Fayette, C. H., Ala. W. A. YOUNG, Vernon, Ala. We have this day, entered into a partnership for the purpose of doing a general law practice in the county of Lamar, and to any business, entrusted to us we will both give our earnest personal attention. – Oct. 13, 1884. S. J. SHIELDS – Attorney-at-law and Solicitor in Chancery. Vernon, Alabama. Will practice in the Courts of Lamar and the counties of the District. Special attention given to collection of claims. PHYSICIANS – DENTISTS M. W. MORTON. W. L. MORTON. DR. W. L. MORTON & BRO., Physicians & Surgeons. Vernon, Lamar Co, Ala. Tender their professional services to the citizens of Lamar and adjacent country. Thankful for patronage heretofore extended, we hope to merit a respectable share in the future. Drug Store. FARMER’S INDEPENDENT WAREHOUSE. We have again rented the Whitfield Stables, opposite the Court house, for the purpose of continuing the Warehouse and Cotton Storage business, and we say to our friends and farmers of West Alabama and East Mississippi, that we will not be surpassed by any others in looking after the wants of our customers to make them conformable while in Columbus. We will have fire places instead of stoves for both white and colored; separate houses fitted up for each. We will have also good shed room for 100 head of stock more than we had last year; also a convenient and comfortable room for our friends who may come to Columbus. We do not hesitate to say that we can and will give you better camping accommodations than any other house in the house in the place. Mr. J. L. MARCHBANKS of Lamar County, Ala., and MILIAS MOORHEAD, of Pickens County, Ala., will be at the stable and will be glad to see their friends and attend to their wants, both day and night. Out Mr. FELIX GUNTER will be at the cotton she where he will be glad to see his old friends and as many new ones as well come. All cotton shipped to us by railroad of river will be received free of drayage to warehouse and have our personal attention. Thanking you for your patronage last season, and we remain the farmer’s friends. Yours Respectfully, J. G. SHULL & CO, Columbus, Miss. PHOTOGRAPHS – R. HENWOOD, Photographer, Aberdeen, Miss. Price list: Cards de visite, per doz………$2.00 Cards Cabinet, per doz……….$4.00 Cards Panel, per doz………….$5.00 Cards Boudoir, per doz………$5.00 Cards, 8 x 10, per doz……….. $8.00 Satisfaction given or money returned. Restaurant, Aberdeen Mississippi – Kupper Ad for Ayer & Sons Advertising Agents Ad for Chicago Cottage Organ J. B. MACE, Jeweler, Vernon, Alabama. (PICTURE OF LOT OF CLOCKS) Dealer in watches, clocks, jewelry and spectacles. Makes a specialty of repairing. Will furnish any style of timepiece, on short notice, and at the very lowest price. Dr. G. C. BURNS, Vernon, Ala. Thankful for patronage heretofore extended me, I hope to receive a liberal share in the future. LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLE. J. D. GUYTON, Prop’r., Columbus, Mississippi. (picture of horse and buggy) Our stock of Furnishing is full and complete in every respect. (Elaborate drawing of goods sold) Largest Cheapest best stock of dress goods, dress trimmings, ladies & misses jerseys clothing, furnishing goods, knit underwear, boots, shoes, & hats, tin ware, etc., etc., at rock bottom figures at A. COBB & SONS’S The Coleman House (Formerly West House). W. S. COLEMAN, Pro. Main St. Columbus, Miss. Is now open for the entertainment of guests, and will be kept clean and comfortable, the table being supplied with the best the market affords. Rates per day…$1.50, Rates for lodging and 2 meals….$1.25, Rates for single meals…...$0.50, Rates for single lodging…..$0.50. call and try us. COLUMBUS ART STUDIO Over W. F. Munroe & Co’s Book Store, Columbus, Mississippi. Fine photographs of all sizes at very reasonable prices. Pictures copied and enlarged. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Call in and examine samples. FRANK A. COE, Photographer WIMBERELY HOUSE Vernon, Alabama. Board and Lodging can be had at the above House on living terms L. M. WIMBERLEY, Proprietor. ERVIN & BILLUPS, Columbus, Miss. Wholesale and retail dealers in pure drugs, paints, oils, paten Medicines, tobacco & cigars. Pure goods! Low prices! Call and examine our large stock. Ad for the American Agriculturist PAGE 3 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY FEBRUARY 3, 1887 (Entered according to an act of Congress at the post office at Vernon, Alabama, as second-class matter.) TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION One copy one year $1.00 One copy six months .60 All subscriptions payable in advance. LOCAL DIRECTORY CHANCERY COURT THOMAS COBBS Chancellor JAS. M. MORTON Register CIRCUIT COURT S. H. SPROTT Circuit Judge THOS. W. COLEMAN Solicitor COUNTY OFFICERS ALEX. COBB Probate Judge R E BRADLEY Circuit Clerk S. F. PENNINGTON Sheriff L. M. WIMBERLEY Treasurer W. Y. ALLEN Tax Assessor D. J. LACY Tax Collector B H WILKERSON Co. Supt. of Education Commissioners – W. M. MOLLOY, SAMUEL LOGGAINS, R. W. YOUNG, ALBERT WILSON CITY OFFICERS L. M. WIMBERLY – Mayor and Treasurer G. W. BENSON – Marshall Board of Aldermen – T. B. NESMITH, W. L. MORTON, JAS MIDDLETON, W A BROWN, R. W. COBB RELIGIOUS FREEWILL BAPTIST – Pastor –T. W. SPRINGFIELD. Services, first Sabbath in each month, 7 p.m. MISSIONARY BAPTIST – Pastor J. E. COX. Services second Sabbath in each month at 11 am. METHODIST – Pastor – G. L. HEWITT. Services fourth Sabbath in each month. 11 a.m. SABBATH SCHOOLS UNION – Meets every Sabbath at 3 o’clock p.m. JAMES MIDDLETON, Supt. METHODIST – Meets every Sabbath at 9 o’clock a.m. G. W. RUSH, Supt. MASONIC: Vernon Lodge, No. 588, A. F. and A. M. Regular Communications at Lodge Hall 1st Saturday, 7 p.m. each month. – T.W. SPRINGFIELD, W. M. W. L. MORTON, S. W. JNO. ROBERTSON, J. W. R. W. COBB, Treasurer, M. W. MORTON, Secretary Vernon Lodge, NO 45, I. O. G. F. Meets at Lodge Hall the 2d and 4th Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. each month. J. D. MCCLUCKEY, N. G. R. L. BRADLEY, V. G. E. J. MCNATT, Treas’r M. W. MORTON, Sec. MAIL DIRECTORY VERNON AND COLUMBUS - Arrives every evening and leaves ever morning except Sunday, by way of Caledonia. VERNON AND BROCKTON – Arrives and departs every Saturday by way of Jewell. VERNON AND MONTCALM – Arrives and departs every Friday. VERNON AND PIKEVILLE – Arrives and (sic) Pikeville every Tuesday and Friday by way of Moscow and Beaverton. VERNON AND KENNEDY – Arrives and departs every Wednesday and Saturday. VERNON AND ANRO – Leaves Vernon every Tuesday and Friday and returns every Wednesday and Saturday. LOCAL BREVITIES Spring weather in January. Advertise if you’d be wise. Gardening grows interesting. The winter seems past and gone. Wind in March is confidently predicted. ,,,,,, (can’t read) Oat growing is the talk of the day now.. Circuit Court convenes on the 21st day of March. The birds are singing. Valentines Day was at hand. Public meeting every Wednesday night at the Methodist Church. Rev. G. L. HEWITT preached a most excellent sermon in town Sunday night. …(REST OF COLUMN VERY LIGHT AND TORN) There are enough prisoners in jail to make a good choir judging from the music that floats from that way. Vernon real estate is almost ready to go on a boom – a little more assurance of a road and the excitement will commence. Miss HATTIE SPRINGFIELD is still quite sick, and many friends sincerely sympathize with her in her great suffering. A reception will be given tonight by Mr. and Mrs. JAS. P. YOUNG at their home, to Mr. and Mrs. W. A. YOUNG. Major BILLUPS, a prominent Banker of Columbus, Miss, spent two days in town this week. Looking after his splendid mineral property near here. Messrs. Name & Nenner, of Louisville, Ky, are offering bargains in seeds, shrubs, &c in their advertisement this week, and give them an order. Messrs BURNS, THOMAS, & CLEARMAN have placed a fine saw down at their mill and threaten to ornate some stir in the lumber market. We are glad to not the increase of new machinery in our county. Mrs. HATTIE MORTON, who deserted Vernon for nearly a three moth’s sty in Florida, reached home latter part of last week, much to the delight of numerous friends. Mrs. HUGH PENNINGTON gave a party on Tuesday last to the ladies of Vernon, where all present enjoyed a pleasant day and splendid dinner. Rev. G. L. HEWITT, Drs. W.L. and M. W. MORTON, and Col. BILLUPS of Columbus, miss, were participants of the dinner. At night a hop was given the young people. STATE ITEMS Attah, a few miles from Gadsden is to have two furnaces. Selma is to have some furnaces herself, says the Times. Montgomery is the mother of the cities – says the Advertiser. The 22nd of February is Arbor Day for Alabama. Capitalists, representing lumber interest from the Northwest are prospecting Alabama. The Selma and Cahaba Valley R. R. is being surveyed. Several cases of “burned to death” recorded of children in the state. According to prophesy, every Alabama town is to have a furnace. Tuskaloosa is to have a road connecting with Macon, Miss. Montgomery capitalists are investing in Walker County road lands. Jackson County has capital stock of $100,000 for the Black Road Iron R. R. New Orleans capitalists are ----ing in Alabama enterprises ---. Birmingham is -----(REST OF COLUMN IS VERY LIGHT AND TORN. Can’t read)--- The singing of merry birds warms us that spring will soon be here. ARBOR DAY FOR THE SCHOOLS State of Alabama, Department of Education Montgomery, Jan. 18, ’87 Impressed with the importance of tree Planting with appropriate ceremonies around our school houses for shade and ornament and believing that the observance of a day for that purpose by the schools of the state will have a beneficial influence on the children not only in training their minds, but in elevating their thoughts, improving their tastes and cultivating their heats, I do hereby designate and appoint TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22ND, 1887, AS ARBOR DAY of the schools of Alabama, and respectfully ask all school officers and teachers to observe the same as such. Upon Arbor Day it is requested that every school plant at least one memorial tree; and it is desired that one such tree be planted by each class, where practicable by each pupil, to be named and cared for by the schools, class or pupil planting the tree. Those desiring information as to the ceremonies appropriate for such occasions, will be furnished on application to Hon. N. H. R. Dawson, Commissioner of Education, Washington D.C. That our Arbor Day, the first ever attempted in the state, may be a success and prove a blessing to future generations, I earnestly invoke the aid of the state press and the hearty, active co-operation of superintendents of counties, cities, townships, and separate school districts as well as every teacher. Given under my hand and official seal, this the 18th day of January, 1887. SOLOMON PALMER, Superintendent of Education NEWS ITEMS Lithographic stone is found in Walker County, Ga. Ex Gov. Bates, nominated for U. S. Senator by the Tennessee Legislative Caucus, which insures his election. Paris is jubilant over ever the defeat of Bismarck’s army bill. Bismarch no doubt is exultant over Paris’ excitement, as it will likely give him many thousands of votes in the coming elections. War with Canada and Canada is backed by Great Britain – if she don’t stop foolin’ with our fishing amacks. An excited pobate in the U. S. Senate which authorizes the President to issue Letters of Margueq, and -----(can’t read) REST OF COLUMN IS SMUDGED, LIGHT, TORN, AND UNREADABLE E. W. BROCK’S Cash store. Prices away down from what you paid before, and prices that knock out all competition. Am too busy to writ new advertisements every week, so just come on and get what you want at prices to suit yourself. E. W. BROCK. Persons visiting Columbus desiring anything in the Millinery line, will do well to call on Miss TILLIE BAILEY (Below Morgan, Robertson, & Co) Miss Tillie’s taste, together with her experience, cannot be surpassed in Columbus or elsewhere. ADMINISTATOR’S SALE The State of Alabama, Lamar County Under and by virtue of an order of the Probate Court of the State and County aforesaid made and directed to J. F. FERGUSON Admr. De Bonis Non of estate of A. T. YOUNG, and W. A. YOUNG Admr. Of estate of S. G. YOUNG from the Probate Court of said county the undersigned will sell at Young’s Mills in said county on the 14th day January 1887 within the legal hours of sale on credit of twelve months the following described real estate to wit: N W ¼ of N W qr and S ½ of N W qr and E ½ of S W qr and E ½ of N W ¼ of S W qr Sec 1 and S E ¼ of N E ¼ and 4 acres off of N E. qr of N E ¼ Sec 2 T 15 R 16 containing 264 acres. A large farm is cleared on some and land is well situated as to local advantages. Purchases giving the requisite security. This Dec. 22nd, 1886. J. F. FERGUSON, Admr. W. A. YOUNG Admr. MORTGAGE SALE The State of Alabama, Lamar County Under and by Virtue of a mortgage made and executed to the undersigned by P. E. and E. D. WRIGHT, on the 7th day of January 1887, to secure certain indebtedness therein mentioned and recorded in Volume 10 page 121, of the record of deeds in office Judge of Probate of said county, I will on Tuesday the 8th day of February 1887 in front of the court house door of said county during the legal hours of sale, sell for cash to the highest bidder to satisfy said indebted the following real estate, to wit: S. N. ½ of S. E. qr. And S E qr of S E qr less 8 acres of cotton 30 acres more or less. This Jan 6th, 1887. E. W. BROCK, Mortgagee THE VERNON HIGH SCHOOL, Under the Principalship of J. R. BLACK, will open October 5, 1886 and continue for a term of nine scholastic months. Rates of Tuition as follows: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month $1.50 INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Practical Arithmetic, Composition, and U. S. History; per month $2.00 ADVANCED: Embracing Algebra, Geometry, Physiology, Rhetoric, Logic, Elocution, and Latin, per month $3.00 Incidental fee 20 cts, per quarter. Discipline will be mild but firm. Special attention given to those who wish to engage in teaching. Good board at $7 per month. Tuition due at the end of each quarter. For further information, address: J. R. BLACK, Principal, Vernon, Ala Barber Shop – GEO. W. BENSON has run over his Barber Shop in the rear of the store of Haley & Denman, where will be please to serve his many customers KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL Located in the live and growing town of Kennedy on the Georgia Pacific Rail Road. The moral and religious influences surrounding this school are unsurpassed in any part of the state. Boarders can find pleasant homes in refined families at very reasonable rates. The first session will commence on Monday Nov. 1st, 1886, and continue for a term of ten scholastic months. TUITION PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month, $1.50. INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Physiology, History of U. S., Practical Arithmetic, and Elementary Algebra, per month $2.00. ADVANCED GRADE: Embracing Higher Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Rhetoric, Elocution, and Latin per month, $2.50. An incidental fee of 25 cents, per session. Special attention will be given to those who expect to engage in teaching and preparing boys and girls to enter college. Tuition due at expiration of each quarter. For further particulars address J. C. JOHNSON, Principal, Kennedy, Ala. THE FERNBANK HIGH SCHOOL under the Principalship of J. R. GUIN, will open Oct. 25, 1886 and continue for a term of Ten Scholastic months Rates of Tuition: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Grammar, Primary Geography and Primary Arithmetic, per month $1.25. INTERMEDIATE: Embracing Brief English Grammar, Elementary Geography, Elementary Arithmetic, Letter Writing and Hygiene, per month, $1.50. PRACTICAL: Embracing English Grammar, Practical Arithmetic, Complete Geography, English Composition, U. S. History and Physiology, per month, $2.00. HIGH SCHOOL: Embracing Rhetoric, Elocution, Algebra, Natural Philosophy, Botany, Geology, Zoology, Hygiene, Physiology, Latin, &c, per month $2.50. Discipline will be firm. Special attention will be given to young men and women who wish to engage in teaching. Good board at $7.00 per month. No incidental fees. Tuition due every five months. Correspondence solicited. Address J. R. GUIN Fernbank, Ala. RUSH & REED. Cheap Cash Store, Dry goods, Clothing, boots & shoes, school books, &c. Coffee, sugar, tobacco snuff crockery and tinware All at Bottom prices. Give us a call. RUSH & REED. Remember This. (picture of boy in clothing) when you want clothing, hats, underwear, that BUTLER & TOPP deal only in these goods. You can get a better selection and a great variety to select from than is kept in any house in Columbus. We carry suits from $6 to $30, and hats from 50 c to $10. Call and see us. BUTLER & TOPP Ad for Pianos and Organs Ad for Peruna Ad for New Home Sewing Machine (picture) PAGE 4 (First Column Is Torn Almost Half Way Down. Whole Page Is Very Light And Smudged) WIT AND HUMOR – jokes LORD BEACONSFIELD – adventurer in politics – [George Satsburg in Magazine of Art for May] DISCIPLINED FOR NOT ATTENDING CHURCH – anecdote DON’T DON’T DON’T - A Few Hints To Gentlemen As To Their Daily Walk And Communion A little volume with the above expressive title has recently been published in the interest of good deportment; but the book don’t exhaust the subject by a good deal, and the following “don’ts” relative to street manners, jotted down as they come to mind, will prove interesting to gentlemen. Don’t keep to the right when walking upon the sidewalk. Should you do so, ten chances to one you will attract no notice from those you meet. Keep to the left if you would make a sensation. Don’t hide your umbrella under your coat as though you were afraid people would think you had stole it. Make a Greek cross of yourself by carrying it under your arm at right angles with your body. Besides, this is the safest way to carry an umbrella. If any eyes are punched out with it, you may be certain they won’t be yours. Don’t carry your cane as though it was a third leg. Let it drag after you in a manner where it will trip up anybody who comes near. How can you know that the man behind you is not a pick pocket, with designs on your wallet and watch? Don’t sit in the horse-car with our back square against the side of the car. Dispose yourself at an oblique angle, occupying the space of two or three seats. What is the use of being a hog unless you let folks know it? Don’t forget to pat vigorously at your cigar as you pass among the crowded sidewalk. It is only a mean man who would wish to keep all the smoke to himself. Gallantry to the fair sex should make you especially generous in your fumid benefactors when women are near you. Don’t apologize if you chance to step upon a gentleman’s foot. It might make him feel awkward. But turn the matter off jocularly by reminding him that you must step somewhere or advising him to keep his feet in his pocket. He cannot but admire your presence of mind and your ready wit. Don’t take any especial pains to point out the way to the stranger who asks to be directed. Just as like as not he won’t remember right. Tell him to find his nose and he will find it, or push by without seeming to notice him. Don’t walk at one monotonous pace all the time. If you are in company walk slowly, two or three abreast. This will prove a trial of patience to people behind you; but patience is a virtue and should be exercised. When you are alone go at railroad speed, elbowing your way vigorously through the crowds. Everybody admires activity and energy. Don’t when two or three of you get together for a little chat, consider that you are blocking the sidewalk. The sidewalk was made for man, not man for the sidewalk, and it is your province to enjoy it to the full. Don’t’ forget to stare at the women-folks. Your eyes were given you to stare with, and if the women don’t like it let them remain indoors. Don’t pass by a lady without turning around to ---er into her face. If you not a jackass, --(torn)---create a false impression into her mind Don’t talk in a low tone of voice as you walk along, unless you have something really worth hearing. If your conversation is of your achievements in guzzling beer or mashing the girls – as no doubt, it is – the more people who hear you the greater the number of those who will know you to be a superior being. Don’t care for anybody but yourself. Remember that Providence helps those who help themselves. – [Boston Transcript] GEORGE ELIOT’S GRAVE It is not true, as alleged in an American girl’s note to the London Times, that George Eliot’s grave is unknown at the cemetery where she lies and is unmarked. In a quiet little corner of Highgate Cemetery, one of the most picturesque spots of suburban London, the grave and the monument of George Eliot can be seen. Shortly before her death George Eliot made a tour through the midland counties of England and on one occasion passed through one of those charmingly quaint and severely silent village churchyards, where time alone marks life and death so quietly and effectively. There a simple flagstone bore the suggestive and mysterious single inscription “The Unknown". This attracted the great authoress. Making inquiries she learned that his was the spot where a cultured and disappointed woman lay at rest after living the life of an “unmarried wife.” And being deserted by that very “humanity” George Eliot had so much praise in seductive chapters. Living out the remnant of this worldly existence in a retired corner of a village, and unknown and uncared for, this far and frail one breather her last in a tiny room, leaving a written request that she should be buried in the neighboring churchyard, and that her only epitaph should be “The Unknown”. A small sum of money was found to defray the funeral expense, and put up the stone which gave “George Eliot” a serous view of life at home and abroad over and above “the humanities” – [Cor. Italian Times] A drunken man in Norwich, Conn recently fell down on the street and went to sleep. He was accompanied by a faithful dog that would not let anyone touch his master. Two police were called, and although as brave as men average and as ingenious, they could devise no way to get their man. The “cops” struck at the dog with their clubs, but he was too good a dodge to be knocked out, and the exercise seemed to be fun for him but exhausting to the man. Finally someone suggested that the animal could be caught in a blanket. A horse blanket was procured and several men took hold of each end of it, and holding it over the dog dropped it on him. Twice he baffled them in the operation but the third time the faithful animal was captured and dragged off, and the master was taken to the police station. POST-OFFICE PUZZLES – Confusion Caused by the Duplicate Names of American Towns – [New York Tribune] DISSECTING A MAD-STONE – (Repeat article) A DEAD CITY – Article about old Quebec – article is badly torn and missing most Ad for Brown’s Iron Bitters Ad for The Globe Cotton and Corn Planter (picture) Ad for Plowboy File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/lamarnew1198gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 39.1 Kb